By Emma Farge
GENEVA (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of people who have fled the Sudanese city of al-Fashir are unaccounted for, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, raising concerns for their safety after reports of rape, killings and other…
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Hamas condemns settler burning of Salfit Mosque as ‘heinous crime’ – Middle East Monitor
The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas has condemned the burning of a mosque in the Salfit governorate by Israeli settlers and said the arson attack “once again exposes the depth of Israeli racism and sadism…
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Hamas urges intl. community to fulfil its duties towards Gaza
Hamas Spokesman Hazem Qasim on Friday announced that the international community’s inability to provide aid to Gaza is encouraging the occupiers to intensify the siege.
He referred to the critical humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip after…
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New H3N2 Subclade K Influenza Raises Concerns About Bad Flu Season
Flu cases in the U.K. are already triple what they were at this time last year. Here Andreas Philippi (l), Lower Saxony’s Minister for Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Equality, gives the flu vaccine to Fabian Feil, President of the State Health…
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2 ex-Assad regime officials in Austria charged with sexual assault, torture – Middle East Monitor
Austrian authorities have charged two former officials from Syria’s ousted Assad regime with alleged serious crimes against civilians in detention, local media reported Wednesday.
The Vienna Public Prosecutor’s…
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Iran marks aerospace week, honors martyrs
Gisoo Misha Ahmadi
Press TV, TehranIran is marking National Aerospace Week, commemorating the 14th anniversary of Martyr Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam, revered as the father of…
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Saveh holds Samanu-Pazan ritual to mark Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra martyrdom
TEHRAN–Samanu-Pazan ritual is held by the people of Saveh city in Markazi province, during the mourning days of martyrdom of Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra (SA) as in previous years.
Samanu is a traditional Iranian sweet paste made entirely from mashed…
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Ardabil to offer 110 tourism investment opportunities at intl. forum
TEHRAN – Ardabil will present 110 identified tourism investment opportunities at an international forum scheduled to be held in the northwestern Iranian province, the provincial tourism chief said on Thursday.
Jalil Jabari, director-general of the…
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Handicrafts, important capacity for developing experience-based tourism in Kish
TEHRAN—Handicrafts are considered as major potential for boosting the experience-oriented tourism in Kish Island, Hormozgan province, Deputy Minister of Handicrafts Maryam Jalali-Dehkordi has said.
Pointing to the identity-based economy, she…
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